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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By : Ravi Mishra
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HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification Guide

By: Ravi Mishra

Overview of this book

Terraform is a highly sought-after technology for orchestrating infrastructure provisioning. This book is a complete reference guide to enhancing your infrastructure automation skills, offering up-to-date coverage of the HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam. This book is written in a clear and practical way with self-assessment questions and mock exams that will help you from a HashiCorp infrastructure automation certification exam perspective. This book covers end-to-end activities with Terraform, such as installation, writing its configuration file, Terraform modules, backend configurations, data sources, and infrastructure provisioning. You'll also get to grips with complex enterprise infrastructures and discover how to create thousands of resources with a single click. As you advance, you'll get a clear understanding of maintaining infrastructure as code (IaC) in Repo/GitHub, along with learning how to create, modify, and remove infrastructure resources as and when needed. Finally, you'll learn about Terraform Cloud and Enterprise and their enhanced features. By the end of this book, you'll have a handy, up-to-date desktop reference guide along with everything you need to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam with confidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Core Concepts
10
Section 3: Managing Infrastructure with Terraform
14
Chapter 11: Terraform Glossary

Questions

The answers to the following questions can be found in the Assessments section at the end of this book:

  1. Which of the following actions are performed during a terraform init operation?

A. Initializes downloaded or installed providers

B. Downloads the declared provider

C. Provisions the declared resources

D. Initializes the backend config

  1. What can the terraform plan command do?

A. Provision declared resources

B. Perform initialization of the backend

C. Create an execution plan and determine which changes need to be made to achieve the desired state in the configuration file

D. Perform linting on the Terraform configuration file

  1. You have defined the following configuration code block:
    resource "azurerm_resource_group" "example" {
      name     = var.rgname
      location = "eastus"
    }

In which possible ways can Terraform take the rgname variable value...